An attack on the Mona Lisa painting has actually taken being ‘ambushed with a cake’ to the next level.
Video video shared online reveals the protective glass covering the world’s most well-known art work, by Leonardo da Vinci, smeared with icing from a cake.
Witnesses declared they saw a guy ‘dressed as an old lady’ dive out of a wheelchair the other day and effort to smash the glass case at the Louvre in Paris, France.
He then obviously continued to ‘smear cake on the glass and throw roses everywhere before being tackled by security’.
It appeared he was an environment protester, with some spectators hearing him state in French: ‘Think of the planet… there are people who are destroying the planet, think about that… That’ s why I did it.’
The guy was using lipstick and a wig and was accompanied away by security.
The Paris district attorney’s workplace stated today the guy, 36, was jailed and sent out to an authorities psychiatric system. Officers have actually now opened an examination into the damage of cultural artefacts.
Guards were later on seen cleansing icing from the glass of the 16 th-century art work.
Louvre visitor Luke Sundberg, a track and field runner from Denver in Colorado, stated he experienced the event.
‘The crowd start gasping and we searched for and some guy in a wheelchair [dressed] as an old woman added to the painting and began punching it prior to smearing cake all over it,’ the 20- year-old stated.
‘It took about 10 to 15 seconds for the security to in fact take the guy away, however the crowd appeared to worry a bit.
‘It was jaw-dropping, it was a lot to take in considering how historic Mona Lisa is… the moment was once in a million.’
A Liverpool FC fan, who just wished to be called Klevis, stated he headed to the museum following his side’s 1-0 defeat in the UEFA Champions League last to Real Madrid at the Stade de France.
‘I had mixed emotions, was feeling sad and disappointed,’ stated the 26- year-old from Albania.
‘ I concerned Paris for the match and the 2nd thing I prepared to do was to see the Mona Lisa.
‘Some guy dressed as an old woman on a wheelchair attacked it with a cake. What were the odds this would happen?’
Officials at the Louvre were not right away offered for remark.
The Italian Renaissance painting is not thought to have actually been harmed throughout the event.
The work of art, which goes back to 1503, is now among the most safeguarded art work worldwide after numerous efforts to attack or take it.
The painting was notoriously taken in 1911 from the Louvre, where it has actually been on irreversible display screen considering that 1797.
A vandal when harmed the canvas with sulphuric acid in the 1950 s, and a trainee tossed a stone at it in 1956– after which it was kept behind protective glass.
The latest attack on the art work remained in 2009, when a Russian female who was rejected French citizenship tossed a ceramic teacup at it.
The cup was smashed however no damage was done to the glass or painting.
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